___ Official and Spoken Languages of the Countries of the Americas and the
Caribbean.

List of official, national and spoken languages of North America, Central America,
South America and the Caribbean.

Thanks to the often violent colonization of the Americas, most of the spoken languages are the tongue of the conquerors, about 400 million people in the Americas speak Spanish as their First Language.
247 million people
speak English as their mother tongue, 204 million people speak Brazilian Portuguese, about 8 million people speak French or French Creole.

Thousands of languages were spoken in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. Today most of the surviving indigenous languages of the
Americas are considered to be critically endangered, they are at risk of falling out of use. It happens in our time, that the last speaker of a language dies and with him or her the language vanishes - forever.

Only four of the dominant language families, Quechua (9 million speakers) and Aymara (2.2 million speakers), Guarani (5 million speakers) and Nahuatl (Aztec; 1.5 million), the most widely spoken languages of indigenous peoples of the Americas, are considered to be not endangered.

Dutch (60%+),it is one of the two non Romance-speaking countries in South America.

Sranan Tongo, a Creole language contains elements
from English, Portugese, Dutch, and influences from African and Indian languages Sranan Tongo, a local creole language originally spoken by the creole population group, is the most widely used language in the daily communication;
other languages spoken are Hindi, Javanese, Maroon and indigenous people languages.